Allied troops at the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy during World War II. Ruins of a building and rubble. A tank parked inside the destroyed building. A soldier gets onto the tank. Bombardment in the target area. Smoke rises due to the same. Destroyed houses in Cassino town. People flee from the place with their luggage. They hold their luggage and some luggage loaded on donkeys.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt family votes at Town Hall, in Hyde Park, New York, during the 1934 U.S. National elections. View of the Town Hall with many people gathered around it. A man explains voting procedure to President Roosevelt's mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt. She enters the voting booth and exits again. The Roosevelt sons are seen in front of the voting booth. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the President's wife, stands in front of the voting booth. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his mother sit in the back of an open automobile. As it backs out of the driveway, the President waves his hat, and applause and boos can be heard from persons gathered around the Town Hall.
The allied Italian Campaign in World War II. British troops in jeeps, half-tracks, trucks, and tanks advance rapidly along a road in Italy. British infantry walking single file along the roadside. Fires burning on distant hillside. Camouflaged tanks on the road. British troops in an established position, firing mortars. A British gun crew firing heavy artillery. A Vickers machine gun being fired from a fortified position by British soldiers. View inside the bunker, of a British machine gunner firing the Vickers gun as an assistant feeds belt ammunition. Smoke rising in distance from shelling. Sherman tanks advancing along a road. British soldiers escorting German prisoners of war. U.S. soldiers guard large number of German prisoners of war, marching along a road.
American B-26 bombers attack waterways and interdict other lines of communication in Germany during final phases of World War II in Europe.
U.S. Army Air Forces Major Robert Morgan, pilot of the famed B-17F, "Memphis Belle," stands on a speaker's platform erected in front of the aircraft, parked on an airbase ramp, during World War 2. He speaks about the importance of buying War bonds. Other crew members stand behind him. At one point, he holds their mascot, a black Scotty dog named "Stuka." In final portion of the sequence, the camera moves back, and the stand is seen to be decorated with red, white, and blue bunting. A civilian makes a final plea for War Bond subscriptions. Members of the audience are seen standing in front of the platform. Major Morgan also appears to be answering some questions from the audience.
The famed B-17F, "Memphis Belle," seen during its June 1943 tour of the U.S. to promote War Bond sales, during World War 2. A group of onlookers watch as the Memphis Belle, piloted by Major Robert Morgan, flies only a few feet above the runway at an Air Base in the United States. (Several A-26 aircraft are seen parked on the field.) A civilian announcer stands on a bunting covered platform on the tarmac beside the runway.
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